Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Intensive care doctor describes hospital filling up with stream of very sick unvaccinated Covid patients - Wales Online https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/intensive-care-doctor-describes-hospital-21434292

£1m invested in new Welsh factory to build 1,000 timber frames for energy efficient homes. https://nation.cymru/news/1m-invested-in-new-welsh-factory-to-build-1000-timber-frames-for-energy-efficient-homes/

#Opec member urges #OilProducers to focus more on #RenewableEnergy | #FossilFuels | The Guardian

A potentially interesting development.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/01/opec-member-urges-oil-producers-to-focus-more-on-renewable-energy

#Environment #Renewables #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Iraq

"How quaint, we've got a little house in Wales. Never mind that the peasants can't afford to stay in their own locality."
https://youtu.be/guMR-8bFQJ8

For the first time, the shortage of supplies to #UK #supermarkets very nearly affected me. There was a single bottle of milk left and so I was lucky this time. There are other supermarkets around and so I could probably have found some elsewhere but that was a close call. Thank you, #BorisJohnson.

#Brexit #Pandemic

#ChrisRiddell: The ghosts of Afghan conflicts past – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/aug/28/the-ghosts-of-afghan-conflicts-past-cartoon

#US #Politics #Satire #Afghanistan

> Science is not about building a body of known “facts”. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.

-- Terry Pratchett

#UK to overhaul #privacy rules in #post-Brexit departure from #GDPR | GDPR | The Guardian

This could be very tricky especially as data currently flows freely between the UK and the #EU.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/26/uk-to-overhaul-privacy-rules-in-post-brexit-departure-from-gdpr

#Brexit #DataProtection

Just a reminder, historic climate change predictions modeling human caused global warming has turned out to be surprisingly accurate.

The attached image shows the average of the leading predictions from 2004 and how it tracks to the actual observed climate change. The accuracy turned out to be quite exceptional.

#Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @Science

Legal representatives of Facebook, Inc. and Instagram, Inc. sent Cease and Desist letter to Barinsta developer[2] (Free and Open-Source Instagram frontend complying with four freedoms[1]) forcing them to stop the development after one year of work.[3]

I believe that if this lawsuit is successful and the app is not allowed to continue it's development other FLOSS projects that do the same thing such as the following would be next in line:
- Bibliogram <https://bibliogram.art/>, Libre Instagram frontend
- invidious <https://invidious.io>, Libre YouTube frontend
- Nitter <https://nitter.net/>, Libre Twitter frontend
- libreddit <https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit>, Libre reddit frontend
- SimplyTranslate <https://translate.metalune.xyz/>, Libre Google Translator frontend

References:
1. App in the f-droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/
2. Copy of the letter:
https://firebot-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/email-attachments/9ceab4da-d016-4524-bffc-87519d5e2cce/Barinsta_-_C26D.pdf
3. Issue by the developer:
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/austinhuang0131/issues/2

#FOSS #FLOSS #OSS #FSF #FSFE #Facebook #Instagram #Barinsta #invidious #nitter #bibliogram #libreddit #simplyTranslate #FLOSSPolicits #OSSPolitics #FOSSPolitics #politics #law #privacy

This morning's walk to work.

Happy Birthday, Linux!

30 years of age.
31,479,666 lines of code.
10.4 changes per hour.
1,031,305 commits.
Almost 25,000 contributors.

Countless freedoms ❤️

#UN criticised over statement on #overuse of #antibiotics in #farming | #Environment | The Guardian

Perpetuating a really bad idea.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/25/un-criticised-over-statement-on-overuse-of-antibiotics-in-farming

#Agriculture #AntibioticResistance #BigFarma

‘Genetic fossil’: intact #DNA from #woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in #Indonesia | #Archaeology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia

#Biology #Zoology #Genetics #Anthropology

Jon Trickett on Twitter
@jon_trickett

• Superyacht sales up 47%
• Private Jets up 30%

The global billionaires are spending their $5.5 trillion covid dividends on luxuries while UK foodbank use climbs by a third.

Just plain wrong.

https://twitter.com/jon_trickett/status/1430461493389283328?s=19